Conference schedule

Opening - Marlene Epp, Conrad Grebel

Chair: Ted Regehr, Calgary, Alberta
Sexuality & Family in First Person Sources

Paul Tiessen, Wilfrid Laurier University
"There are certain things Mennonite children are kept from seeing: Sexuality, Seeing, and Saying in memoir and diary of the early 20th Century"

Katherine Martens, Winnipeg, Manitoba
"Memoir Explorations of Family Life: The letters of Nic and Tina Martens"

M.J. Heisey, State University of New York at Potsdam
"What Do I Really Have to Offer These People: Elsie C. Bechtel’s Writings on Lavercantiere, France, 1945-1948"

Break

Chair: Sam Steiner, Conrad Grebel
Ideals and Realities in Traditionalist/Conservative Groups

Barb Draper, Elmira, Ontario
"Old Order Mennonite Family Life in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries"

Nate Yoder, Eastern Mennonite Seminary
"Bill Gothard’s Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts and The Conservative Mennonite Conference: Evangelical Teaching for Traditionalist Families in Transition"

Doreen Klassen, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College
"I wanted a life of my own: Creating a Single Woman Mennonite Identity in Mexico"

Chair: Maurice Martin, Mennonite Historical Society of Ontario
"Doing Family History"

Anne Konrad Dyck, Toronto, ON
"The Russian-Mennonite Saga as Seen in the Life of One Family: And in Their Silent Beauty Speak"

M. Lucille Marr, McGill University
"Reflections on Writing Family History: A Case Study of Frances H. Davidson and her Nieces"

Lunch (to register for lunch, email Laura Stemp-Morlock - payable at the door).

Chair, Wanda Wagler Martin, Shalom Counselling Services, Waterloo, Ontario
"Homosexuality: Church Positions and Individual Experience"

Priscilla Reimer, Woodmore, Manitoba
"She Sleeps with her Girlfriend: A 20th-Century Shunning"

Jan Braun, Winnipeg, Manitoba
"From Policy to the Personal: One Queer Mennonite's Journey"

Ed Janzen, Conrad Grebel
"Numbers Have a Story Too: Exploring the Significance of the Sexual Identity Incidence
Statistics in one Mennonite Study"

Break

Chair: Jim Pankratz, Conrad Grebel
"Marriage Models and Behaviours"

Michael Driedger, Brock University
"Mennonites, Marriage, and the Emergency of Civil Society in the Netherlands"

Lydia Neufeld Harder, Toronto School of Theology
"Interpretations of Biblical Teachings on Marriage Within Mennonite Confessions of Faith"

Jennifer A. Johnson, University of Toronto
"Religious Endogamy and Exogamy Among the Mennonites of Ontario in the Late 19th Century"

Hildi Froese Tiessen, Conrad Grebel
"Mennonite/s Writing on Family & Sexuality"

Royden Loewen, Chair in Mennonite Studies, University of Winnipeg
"Being Mennonite in the Family: A North American Perspective" - keynote address.

Reception in the John E. Toews Atrium